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‘The real issues are trust and abuse of it’, Sandra Coney declared. “The patients didn’t know.’1 Cartwright agreed: ‘The great majority of patients did not know, except intuitively, that they were participants in the 1966 trial.’2 In its submission to the Inquiry, the Ministry of Women’s Affairs Te Ohu Whakatupu (Maori Women’s Secretariat) stated, ‘Dr Green certainly was not accountable to his patients who appeared to be totally ignorant of the fact that they were being used as subjects in his studies and that they were being denied full treatment of their condition.’3
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Ornella Moscucci, ‘The “Ineffable Freemasonry of Sex”: Feminist Surgeons and the Establishment of Radiotherapy in Early Twentieth-century Britain, in David Cantor (ed.), Cancer in the Twentieth Century, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2008, pp. 139–63.
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Bryder, L. (2010). The Therapeutic Relationship and Patient Consent. In: Women’s Bodies and Medical Science. Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-25110-6_4
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